Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean.

The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Silence. Stillness. To give her soul a chance to attend its own affairs at its own level.

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked him to forgive me.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Dinner theater is anti-culture.